Embarrassing Moments

I heard a story on K-Love this morning of a family traveling during rainy weather.  The wife wanted a soft drink, and her husband said he'd stop at the nearest convenience store.  He told her since it was raining she'd have to go in and get the drink herself.  She ran in, purchased the soft drink, and ran back out, head down, dodging raindrops.   

Once she had jumped in the van and plunked her drink in the cup holder, she saw her husband bent over picking something up from the floorboard.  She smacked him a few times on the bottom, and said..."I should spank your booty", followed by a little drum roll..."ba da dum dum".  When he sat up suddenly, she soon discovered it wasn't her husband at all, but instead an old bald guy.  Realizing she was in the wrong van, she glanced over and saw her husband staring at her from the van beside her.  She jumped out, leaving her drink behind, then ran and climbed in the passenger side of her van.  Once inside, she slumped down in the seat to hide.  Her daughter in the backseat leaned up and said, "Mommy, why were you in the car with that man?" 

I laughed so hard when I heard this, because it sounds exactly like something I would do.  I don't know how many times when leaving church I have tried to open the door of a car that looked like ours.  My husband would usually say, "What are you doing?  That's not our car."  Thankfully, no one was in the driver's seat!  That's what happens when we become preoccupied and oblivious to our surroundings.

I would have to say my most embarrassing moment (to date) happened in an upscale store at a local mall.  As I walked along, I suddenly tripped over something.  When I looked down, the foot of a pair of pantyhose was hanging out of my pants leg and it was dragging the ground.  I looked all around to see if anyone had seen it, then proceeded to go behind a display and attempted to pull it out.  The more I pulled, the more it stretched; but it would not come out.  Thus the dilemma...instead of a little bit of pantyhose hanging out of my pants, now there's a lot.  I tried to stuff it back inside, but knew I had to get to a restroom to remove it.   

One of my favorite old movies is Bringing Up Baby.  There's a scene where Katherine Hepburn's dress rips down the back.  Cary Grant walks, glued to her backside, in order to get her across the room and out of the restaurant.  Well, that's probably what we looked like when my husband walked behind me--across the entire store--to find the nearest restroom.   

After that event, I learned it's wise to always use drier sheets.  They may save you from a really embarrassing situation one day.  Thankfully, time has the tendency to turn embarrassing moments into what they should be...just funny stories.   


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